The Organs of Action: An In-Depth Therapeutic Look at our Hands and Feet with Katy Benjamin

January 9th, 12-3pm: Feet and Foundation This course offering will highlight the importance of our foundation, the feet and toes. Our feet carry our entire bodies around, and are inspirational in their work. This workshop is appropriate for any level of practitioner, including those who are experiencing arthritis, bunions, hammertoe, diabetes, nerve damage or other foot related conditions.

January 23rd, 12-3pm: Healing HandsDuring this course we will explore our most dextrous parts of the body, our hands and fingers! We will help to open and soothe the joints of the fingers and hands, while building strength and awareness of habitual patterns. We will learn how the stress felt in the hands can affect and be affected by our shoulders and jaw. Appropriate for any practitioner.

Take both for $50 or one for $30.

Katy Benjamin: With 14 years of experience, Katy is currently enrolled in Integrative Yoga Therapy’s 1000-hour Yoga Therapist program, making regular trips to the mainland for therapeutic training. With a strong background in Anatomy, she modifies for any level of practitioner with special attention to whole person health. Katy works with athletes, those recovering from surgery, pre and postnatal women, those in mental health treatment centers, as well as clients with autoimmune diseases and chronic pain. Helping students recognize their inherent wholeness, and interconnected nature of our physical, emotional and energetic layers is at the forefront of Katy’s teachings. In 2006, Katy received spinal surgery to install Harrington rods for scoliosis. She is passionate about helping those in pain, inspiring others to participate in yoga in a way that honors their present state. She lives on the Big Island of Hawai’i with her incredible partner and their ever-growing army of jungle cats.